Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway

Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway
Overview

Locale	Tewkesbury and Malvern
Dates of operation	16 May 1864–14 August 1961
Successor	Midland Railway
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Length	13.5 miles (21.7 kilometres)

Tewkesbury & Malvern Railway

Legend

Cotswold Line to Worcester

Great Malvern

Cotswold Line to Hereford

Tewkesbury Docks

Birmingham and Gloucester Railway

to Birmingham

Gloucester loop line to Evesham

Ashchurch MoD depot

Ashchurch

Birmingham and Gloucester Railway

to Cheltenham

The Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway was a branch of the Midland Railway which ran from Ashchurch via Tewkesbury to Great Malvern in the United Kingdom. It was opened on 16 May 1864. At grouping in 1923 it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway.

Connections

It connected with the Worcester & Hereford Railway and the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway.

Structures

There were two significant bridges when first constructed – over the River Avon at Tewkesbury (62 yards or 57 metres) and over the River Severn at Saxons Lode (145 yards or 133 metres) with five spans and a sliding centre section to allow tall masted ships to pass). There was also a 420-yard (380-metre) tunnel and a long embankment and viaduct over a floodplain at The Mythe near Tewkesbury. The embankment, viaducts and remaining bridges were demolished in 2013 as part of the Tewkesbury area flooding improvement works with the bricks being reused in the reconstruction of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Broadway station. In 1961 a bridge over the M50 motorway was erected – as of 2012 this bridge has been removed & moved to the Bluebell Railway.

Closure

The section of line from Malvern to Upton-upon-Severn was closed in December 1952. The remainder closed to passengers on 14 August 1961. Freight continued to operate to Upton until July 1963 as far as Tewkesbury until December 1964.

References

"Upton's Railway Station"Welcome to Upton on Severn; Retrieved 28 September 2016

External links

Transport in Gloucestershire

Road

Motorways	M4 M5 M32 M48 M49 M50
A-roads	A38 A40 A46 A48 A403 A417 A419 A429 A431 A432 A433 A466 A4032 A4103 A4135 A4136 A4174
Service stations	Gloucester services Michaelwood services Severn View services
Other	B4008 E30 Icknield Street Westgate Street

Airports and heliports

Rail

Main lines	Cotswold Line Cross Country Route Gloucester-Newport line Golden Valley line Henbury Loop line
Closed lines	Avon and Gloucestershire Railway Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway Bicslade Tramroad (Tram) Bristol and Gloucester Railway Bristol and Gloucestershire Railway Bullo Pill Railway Cheltenham and District Light Railway Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway Cirencester branch line Coleford Railway Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway Dursley and Midland Junction Railway Evesham loop line Forest of Dean Central Railway Forest of Dean Railway Gloucester and Cheltenham Tramroad (Tram) Hereford, Ross and Gloucester Railway Ledbury and Gloucester Railway Midland and South Western Junction Railway Mitcheldean Road & Forest of Dean Junction Railway Monmouth Railway Oxford, Witney and Fairford Railway Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway Severn and Wye Railway Severn Bridge Railway Sharpness Branch Line South Wales Railway Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway Stratford and Moreton Tramway (Tram) Tetbury branch line Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway Wye Valley Railway
Stations	Ashchurch for Tewkesbury Cam and Dursley Cheltenham Spa Gloucester Kemble Lydney Moreton-in-Marsh Pilning Stonehouse Stroud
Closed stations	Adlestrop Andoversford and Dowdeswell Andoversford Junction Awre for Blakeney Badminton Barbers Bridge Berkeley Berkeley Road Bilson Halt Bishops Cleeve Blaisdon Halt Bourton-on-the-Water Bowbridge Crossing Halt Brimscombe Bridge Halt Brimscombe Bullo Cross Halt Cam Cashes Green Halt Chalford Charfield Charlton Kings Charlton Halt Chipping Sodbury Chedworth Halt Cheltenham High Street Halt Cheltenham High Street Cheltenham Leckhampton Cheltenham Spa Malvern Road Cheltenham Spa St. James Chepstow East Chesterton Lane Halt Chipping Campden Churchdown Cinderford New Cirencester Town Cirencester Watermoor Cleeve Downfield Crossing Halt Drybrook Road Dudbridge Dursley Dymock Ebley Crossing Halt Fairford Foss Cross Four Oaks Halt Frocester Gloucester Eastgate Grange Court Greenway Halt Gretton Halt Hallen Halt Ham Mill Halt Haresfield Hayles Abbey Halt Henbury Iron Acton Jackament's Bridge Halt Laverton Halt Lechlade Longhope Lydbrook Junction Malswick Halt Mangotsfield Mickleton Halt Nailsworth Netherhope Halt] New Passage Halt New Passage Pier Newent Newnham North Filton Platform Notgrove Park Leaze Halt Redbrook on Wye Rodmarton Platform Ruspidge Halt Ryeford St Mary's Crossing Halt Severn Bridge Sharpness South Cerney Speech House Road Staple Edge Halt Staple Hill Stonehouse (Bristol Road) Stow-on-the-Wold Stroud (Midland) Tetbury Tetbury Road Tewkesbury Thornbury Tidenham Trouble House Halt Tutshill for Beachley Halt Tytherington Upper Soudley Halt Warmley Weston-sub-Edge Wickwar Whitecroft Willersey Halt Winterbourne Withington Woodchester
Heritage stations	Bitton Cheltenham Racecourse Gotherington Hayles Abbey Halt Heywood Lydney Junction Lydney Norchard Oakiron Oldland Common Parkend Perrygrove Rookwood St Mary's Halt Toddington Whitecroft Winchcombe
Heritage railways	Avon Valley Railway Dean Forest Railway Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Lea Bailey Light Railway Perrygrove Railway Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway
Proposed	Gloucestershire Parkway

Buses

Stations	Gloucester Transport Hub
Companies	First West of England Newport Bus Stagecoach West

Waterways

Rivers	River Avon, Bristol River Avon, Warwickshire River Boyd Bybrook River River Cam River Chelt River Churn River Coln River Dikler River Evenlode River Eye River Frome, Bristol River Frome, Stroud Hazel Brook River Isbourne Lam Brook River Leach River Leadon Little Avon River Nailsworth Stream Painswick Stream Ruscombe Brook River Severn Siston Brook Slad Brook Stoke Brook River Swilgate Tetbury Avon River Thames River Trym River Windrush River Wye
Canals	Cinderford Canal Coombe Hill Canal Gloucester and Sharpness Canal Hereford and Gloucester Canal Lydney Canal Pidcock's Canal Stroudwater Navigation Thames and Severn Canal
Docks and ports	Gloucester Docks Sharpness

Footpaths

National Trails	Cotswold Way Thames Path
Long-distance footpaths	Celtic Way Geopark Way Gloucestershire Way Heart of England Way Limestone Link Macmillan Way Monarch's Way Oxfordshire Way Sabrina Way Severn Way
Other	Frome Valley Walkway Wysis Way

Cycle paths

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